Higher Education: Admissions

Peter Aldous: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many pupils entitled to free school meals went to (a) Russell Group Universities and (b) the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013.

David Willetts: The estimated numbers of pupils with free school meals who progressed to Russell Group institutions, Oxford and Cambridge by age 19 are shown in the following table:
	
		
			 Estimated number of pupils from maintained schools in England with free school meals at age 15 who progressed to Russell Group institutions, Oxford and Cambridge by age 191 
			  In HE by age 19 in 2009-10 In HE by age 19 in 2010-11 
			 Russell Groups 1,580 1,540 
			 Oxford 15 15 
			 Cambridge 25 25 
			 1 Numbers are rounded to the nearest 5. 2 Current (post 2012) membership of the Russell Group. Source: Matched data from the DFE National Pupil Database, the HESA Student Record and the SFA ILR 
		
	
	Figures are not available after 2010-11.